Maria Rosa Menocal: I write so many different kinds of things so often (memos, lecture notes, emails, forms like this!) that it is rarely a problem...and if it is I know that if you just begin to write, even if it is nonsense or terrible, then it will begin to flow, and then you can rewrite.
Mona Golabek: The story poured out from me, since it was based on my mother and the stories she told me from childhood.
Lynn Schooler: All writing seems to require an ungodly effort, even such simple things as answering these questions. So my method for breaking out of the doldrums is to write something --- anything! --- even if it comes out all awkward and lumpy, then start banging and scraping away at it until it begins to take shape. After a few hours of that, I stand up and stretch --- then sit down and start working on the next sentence.
Tony Perrottet: I start writing anything that comes into my head, with the hope that I will eventually figure out what I want to say. Usually it works --- even if I have to delete the first page! Alternatively, I'll start half way through, if I have to. I just like to get going.
Emma Sweeney: I take my dog for a walk or go into the garden and something. Both exercises help me to relax and when I return to the blank page I either have something to say or if I don't it doesn't matter as much as it did before.
